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Agilent Technologies

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Agilent Technologies reviews

3.7

66% would recommend to a friend

(2,673 total reviews)
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Padraig McDonnell

56% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Agilent Technologies has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 2,673 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Agilent Technologies employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

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3K reviews
2.0
Aug 7, 2009
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Pros

I work with fantastically smart engineers and customers on the latest and greatest technologies. I get a lot of say in the product design, as management doesn't really pay attention to what we're doing. When there aren't layoffs happening, you can slack off big time without too much consequence (at least from what I can tell)--watch out when layoffs come, though!

Cons

Pay for tenure, not performance. I feel like the company has this great resource of great employees that it doesn't appreciate. I don't feel that Agilent's long term future aligns with mine (ie, existing in the future). Many old bloated processes that people are stuck to, and there are many, many "Dilbert" moments at Agilent. In general the culture is anti-innovation (I know that's hard to believe, but it's true), and nearly all business decisions are accounting (short-term) driven. Most of the employees under 30 are actively looking for employment elsewhere. The older folks with "tenure" are too set in their ways or afraid to look for a new job to notice the sinking ship!

4.0
Aug 1, 2009

Management?

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Well known in industry, decent pay and benefits, flexible work environment, most of the people are awesome to work with - very smart, competent and good attitude.

Cons

Since spinning off from HP, yearly sales has gone down, number of employees has gone down, innovation has gone down and the stock price has gone down. Hmm.

2.0
Jul 21, 2009

Senior Management is clueless

Anonymous employee
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Pros

good salary good benefits flexible work hours smart coworkers challenging and varied types of work the company will pay education benefits

Cons

Not even sure where to begin on this...upper management is only worried about the stock price and seems to be enclosed and attentive to their own set of issues. This really hurts morale.

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